We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.